Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:21:19 +0900
"Daniel P. Wright" <dani at dpwright.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you all for your replies.  I have finally managed to get the
> machine up and running again -- the problem was not what I expected!

like always.
> 
> 1) Setting AutoAddDevices, etc in xorg.conf
> 2) Disabling HAL before starting X
> 3) Recompiling the X server without HAL support and removing
> hald_enable from rc.conf
> 4) Running X without an xorg.conf
> 
You really put the effort in.

> I had disabled that briefly in order to do some configuration which
> required me to close X, but stupidly all I did was comment out the
> call to "startx" rather than the whole if statement.  As a result
> tty7 was constantly logging me in and out in the background.
> 
This is so cool. I really like it. Do not feel alone in a situation
like this. How often did this happen to us before?

Erich